Began when
Tom Mason and Emily Vickers met at the studio of legendary ad
photographer Jay Maisel. After 8 years as Jay’s first assistant,
Tom formed Mason Productions, providing scouting and production
coordination to location photographers. After 12 years as
Maisel’s production manager, Emily left in 1993 to serve as
Director of Education for the American Society of Media
Photographers where she created the successful Strictly Business
Seminar Series. The two joined ranks in January 1995.

As Mason Vickers Productions, LLC Tom and Emily offer a full
roster of support services to a wide-ranging clientele of
photographers and ad agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

YOUR ADVANTAGE

Is the combined 30 years of lessons we’ve
learned on location and in the studio. From one-day jobs to
40-day campaigns, every successful shoot depends on planning,
logistics, and constantly creating consensus. There are a lot of
balls in the air and someone has to keep them up there… one
falls and chaos could ensue. Our job is keeping all those balls
aloft, and we haven’t dropped one yet.

We firmly believe in Murphy’s Law, so we plan for every
contingency and can predict almost anything, including the
weather. And we never forget that no matter how the pictures
turn out, all that the client will remember about the shoot is
the food.